[This chronology has been compiled and crosschecked
against
a number of sources, however, a special acknowledgement should be made
to the thorough "Literary Chronology" and appendices printed in The
Theater
Essays of Arthur Miller, eds. Robert A. Martin and Steven R. Centola.]

1915 Arthur Asher Miller was born on October
17th
in New York City; family lives at 45 West 110th Street.

1920-28 Attends Public School #24 in Harlem.

1923 Sees first play--a melodrama at the
Schubert
Theater.

1928 Bar-mitzvah at the Avenue M
temple.
Father's business struggling and family move to Brooklyn. Attends
James Madison HIgh School.

1930 Reassigned to the newly built
Abraham
Lincoln High School. Plays on football team.

1931 Delivery boy for local bakery
before
school, and works for father's business over summer vacation.

1933 Graduates from Abraham Lincoln High
School.
Registers for night school at City College, but quits after two weeks.

1933-34 Clerked in an auto-parts
warehouse,
where
he was the only Jew employed and had his first real, personal
experiences
of American anti-semitism.

1934 Enters University of Michigan in
the
Fall to study journalism. Reporter and night editor on student paper, The
Michigan Daily.

1936 Writes No Villain in six days and
receives Hopwood Award in Drama. Transfers to an English major.

1937 Takes playwrighting class with Professor
Kenneth T. Rowe. Rewrite of No Villain, titled, They Too
Arise,
receives a major award from the Bureau of New Plays and is produced in
Ann Arbor and Detroit. Honors at Dawn receives Hopwood Award in
Drama. Drives Ralph Neaphus East to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in
Spain during their Civil War, and decides not to go with him.

1938 The Great Disobedience receives
second
place in the Hopwood contest. They Too Arise is revised and
titled
The
Grass Still Grows for anticipated production in New York City
(never
materializes). Graduates with a B.A. in English. Joins the
Federal
Theater Project in New York City to write radio plays and scripts,
having
turned down a much better paying offer to work as a scriptwriter for
Twentieth
Century Fox, in Hollywood.

1939 Writes Listen My Children, and You're
Next with Norman Rosten. Federal Theater is shut down and
has
to go on relief. William Ireland's Confession airs
on Colimbia Workshop.

1940 Travels to North Carolina to collect
dialect
speech for the folk division of the Library of Congress. Marries
Mary Grace Slattery. Writes The Golden Years. Meets Clifford
Odets
in a second-hand bookstore. The Pussycat and the
Plumber
Who Was a Man, a radio play airs on Columbia Workshop (CBS)

1941 Takes extra job working nightshift as a
shipfitter's
helper at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. Writes other radio plays, Joel
Chandler
Harris, and Captain Paul.

1942 Writes radio plays The Battle of the
Ovens,
Thunder
fron the Mountains, I Was Married in Bataan, Toward a
Farther
Star, The Eagle's Nest, and The Four Freedoms.

1943 Writes The Half-Bridge, and
one-act,
That
They May Win, produced in New York City. Writes Listen for the
Sound
of Wings (radio play).

1944 Daughter, Jane, is born. Writes radio
plays
Bernadine,
I Love You, Grandpa and t he Statue, and The Phillipines Never
Surrendered.
Adapts Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman and Jane Austen's Pride
and Prejudice for the radio. Having toured army camps to research
for
The
Story of G.I. Joe (a film for which he wrote the initial draft
screenplay,
but later withdrew from project when he saw they would not let him
write
it his way), he publishes book about experience, Situation Normal.
The
Man Who Had All The Luck premiers on Broadway but closes after six
performances (including 2 previews), though receives the Theater Guild
National Award.

1946 Adapts George Abbott's and John C. Holm's
Three
Men on a Horse for radio.

1947 All My Sons premiers and receives
the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, and the Donaldson Award. Son,
Robert, is born. Writes The Story of Gus (radio play). Writes
"Subsidized
Theatre" for The New York Times (article). Goes to work for a
short
time in an inner city factory assembling beer boxes for minimum wage to
stay in touch with his audience. Gives first interview to John K.
Hutchens,
for The New York Times. Explores the Red Hook area and tries to
get into the world of the longshoremen there, and find out about Pete
Panto,
whose story would form the nucleus of his screenplay The Hook.
Buys farmhouse in Roxbury Connecticut as a vacation home, and 31 Grace
Court in the city.

1948 Built himself the small Connecticut
studio
in which he wrote Death of a Salesman. Trip to Europe with
Vinny
Longhi where got sense of the Italian background he would use for the
Carbones
and their relatives, also met some Jewish deathcamp survivors held
captive
in a post-war tangle of bureaucracy.

1949 Death of a Salesman premiers and
receives
the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the
Antoinette
Perry Award, the Donaldson Award, and the Theater Club Award, among
others.
New
York Times publishes "Tragedy and the Common Man" (essay). Attends
the pro-Soviet Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace at
the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to chair an arts panel with Odets and Dmitri
Shostakovich.

1950 Adaption of Henrik Ibsen'sAn Enemy of
the People premiers. The Hook fails to reach production due
to pressure from HUAC. First sound recording of Death of a Salesman.

1951 Meets Marilyn Monroe for the first
time. Yiddish production of Death of a Salesman,
translated
by Joseph Buloff. First film production of Death of a Salesman,
with Frederic March, for Columbia Pictures. Inge Morath comes to
America.

1952 Visits the Historical Society "Witch
Museum"
in Salem, to research for The Crucible.

1953 The Crucible premiers and
receives
the Antoinette Perry Award, and the Donaldson Award. Tried his hand at
directing, a production of All My Sons for the Arden, Delaware,
summer theatre.

1954 Asked to attend the Belgian premier of The
Crucible, but unable to attend as denied passport by the US.
First radio production of Death of a Salesman, on NBC.

1955 The one-act A View From the Bridge
premiers in a joint bill with A Memory of Two Mondays. HUAC
pressured
city officials to withdraw permission for Miller to make a film he'd
been
planning about New York juvenile delinquency.

1956 Lives in Nevada for six weeks in order to
divorce Mary Slattery and gets the material for The Misfits. Marries
Marilyn
Monroe. Subpoenaed to appear before HUAC. Receives honorary Doctor of
Human
Letters (L.H.D.) from the University of Michigan. Goes to England with
Monroe and meets Laurence Olivier. Revises A View From the Bridge
into two acts for Peter Brook to produce in London, England.

1957 Arthur Miller's Collected Plays
published.
Convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to name names to the
House
Un-American Activities Committee. Short story "The Misfits" is
published
in Esquire. First television production of Death of a
Salesman,
on ITA, England.

1958 United States Court of Appeals overturns
his contempt conviction. Elected to the National Institute of Arts and
Letters.

1959 Receives the Gold Medal for Drama from
the
National Institute of Arts and Letters.

1961 Divorces Marilyn Monroe. Misfits
(film)
premiers. Recorded The Crucible: An Opera in Four Acts by
Robert
Ward and Bernard Stambler. Sidney Lumet directs a movie version of View
From a Bridge. Mother, Augusta Miller dies.

1964 After visiting the Mauthausen death camp
with Inge, covered the Nazi trials in Frankfurt, Germany for the New
York Herald Tribune. After the Fall and Incident at
Vichy
premier.

1965 Elected president of International
P.E.N.,
the international literary organization, and went to Yugoslavian
conference.
Ulu Grosbard's Off-Broadway production of A View from the Bridge.

1966 First sound recording of A View From
the
Bridge. Father, Isidore Miller dies.

1967 I Don't Need You Anymore (short
stories)
published. Sound recording of Incident at Vichy. Television
production
of The Crucible, on CBS. Visited Moscow to persuade
Soviet
writers to join P.E.N. Son
Daniel born.

1968 The Price premiers. Attends the
Democratic
National Convention in Chicago as the delegate from Roxbury. Sound
recording
of After the Fall.

1969 In Russia published (reportage
with
photographs by Inge Morath). Visited Czechoslovakia to show support for
writers there and briefly met Václav Havel. Retired as President
of P.E.N.

1970 One acts Fame and The Reason
Why
produced, the latter also filmed on his estate. Miller's works are
banned
in the Soviet Union as a result of his work to free dissident writers.

1971 Sound recording of An Enemy of the
People.
Television productions of A Memory of Two Mondays, on PBS and The
Price, on NBC. The Portable Arthur Miller is published.

1972 The Creation of the World and Other
Business
premiers. Attends the Democratic National Convention in Miami as a
delegate.
First sound recording of The Crucible.

1973 Television production of Incident at
Vichy,
on PBS.

1974 Up From Paradise (musical version of The
Creation of the World and Other Business ) premiers at the
University
of Michigan. Television production of After the Fall, on NBC.

1977 In the Country published
(reportage
with Inge Morath). Miller petitions the Czech government to halt
arrests
of dissident writers. The Archbishop's Ceiling premiers in
Washington,
D.C.

1978 The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller,
edited by Robert A. Martin published. Fame (film) appears on
NBC.
Belgian National Theatre does 25th anniversary production of The
Crucible,
and this time Miller can attend.

1979 Chinese Encounters published
(reportage
with Inge Morath).

1980 Playing for Time (film) appears
on
CBS. The American Clock premiers at the Spoleto Festical in
South
Carolina, then opens later in New York City. TV film Arthur Miller
on
Home Ground ahown on PBS.

1981 The second volume of Arthur Miller's
Collected
Plays published.

1982 One acts Elegy for a Lady and Some
Kind of Love Story are produced under the title 2 by A.M.
in
Connecticut.

1983 Directs Death of a Salesman at
the
People's Art Theater in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.

1984 Salesman in Beijing is published.
Elegy
and Some Kind are published under the new title Two-Way
Mirror.
Miller receives Kennedy Center Honors for his lifetime achievement.

1985 Death of a Salesman with Dustin
Hoffman
airs on CBS to an audience of 25 million. Miller goes to Turkey with
Harold
Pinter for International PEN. A delegate at a meeting of Soviet and
American
writers in Vilnius, Lithuania, where tried to persuade the Soviets to
stop
persecuting writers.

1986 I Think About You a Great Deal is
published (monologue). One of fifteen writers and scientists invited to
the Soviet Union to conference with Mikhail Gorbachov and discuss
Soviet
policies. British production of The Archbishop's Ceiling, with
a
restored script.

1987 One acts I Can't Remember Anything
and Clara are produced under the titleDanger: Memory!
Publishes
Timebends:
A Life (autobiography), which appeared as a Book -of the-Month Club
popular selection. University of East Anglia names its centre for
American
studies, the Arthur Miller Centre. The Golden Years is
premiered
on BBC Radio. Television production of All My Sons, on PBS.

1990 Everybody Wins, a film based on Some
Kind, is released. Television production of An Enemy of the
People,
on PBS.

1991 The one-act The Last Yankee is
produced.
The
Ride Down Mt. Morgan is premiered in London, England. Receives
Mellon
Bank Award for lifetime achievement in the humanities. Television
production
of Clara, and an interview on A&E.South Bank
Show
television special on Miller.

1992 Homely Girl is published
(novella).

1993 Expanded version of The Last Yankee
premiers. Television production of The American Clock, on TNT.

1995 Receives William Inge Festival Award for
distinguished achievement in American theater. Tributes to the
playwright
on the occasion of his eightieth birthday are held in England and
America.
Homely
Girl, A Life and Other Stories is published (novella and short
stories).

1996 Receives the Edward Albee Last Frontier
Playwright
Award. Revised and expanded book of Theater Essays, edited by
Steven
R. Centola is published.

1997 Revised version of The Ride Down Mt.
Morgan
is given its American Premier in Williamstown, MA. The Crucible
(film with Daniel Day Lewis) opens. BBC television production of Broken
Glass.

1998 Mr. Peter's Connections premiers.
Major revival of A View From the Bridge wins two Tony
Awards.
Is named as the Distinguished Inaugural Senior Fellow of the American
Academy
in Berlin. Revised version of The Ride Down Mt. Morgan appears
on
Broadway.

1999 Death of a Salesman revived on
Broadway
for the play's 50th anniversary, and wins Tony for Best Revival of a
Play.

2000 The Ride Down Mount Morgan
appears
again on Broadway, also a revival of The Price. There are
major 85th birthday celebrations for Miller held at University of
Michigan
and at the Arthur Miller Center at UEA, England. Echoes Down
the
Corridor is published (collected essays from 1944-2000).

2001 Untitled, a previously
unpublished
one act written for Vaclav Havel appears in New York.
Williamstown
Theater Festival revives The Man Who Had All the Luck. Focus,
a film based on the book, is released. Miller is awarded a NEH
Fellowship
and the John H. Finley Award for Exemplary Service to New York City. On
Politics and the Art of Acting is published (essay).

2002 New York City revivals of The
Man
Who Had All the Luck and The Crucible. Inge Morath
dies.
Premier
of Resurrection Blues. Awarded the International
Spanish
Award: Premio PrÌncipe de Asturias de las Letras

2004 New York City revival of After the Fall.
Premier of Finishing the Picture.

2005 Miller dies of heart failure in his Connecticut home
on
10th February. Memorial Services held in Roxbury and NY.

Arthur Miller died with the same dignity by
which he had always lived, at his home in Connecticut on February 10th,
at the age of 89, and he will be greatly missed by all who knew him or
his work. A great writer, a staunch humanitarian, and vital human
being, his biggest legacy is his writing, and he has thankfully left us
with a great wealth. It will be the society's privilege to
continue
to promote and study this national treasure. The following obituary was
printed in the New York Times on 2/14/05: